RideApart Review: 2013 Suzuki Hayabusa
The 2013 Suzuki Hayabusa has been updated with new Brembo Monobloc radial brake calipers and Anti-Lock Brakes. Can such a minor change keep it relevant in 2013?
A day of riding the 2013 Suzuki Hayabusa on a well-planned route around Palomar Mountain? Sign me up. The Hayabusa is a very interesting motorcycle, unlike almost anything else on the market and, with the changes made for the 2013 bike, it promised to be an awesome day.
We got to ride brief stints on the freeway, long open stretches of highway, beautiful fast sweepers, and tight mountain roades and all with one final ingredient: a police escort to block off sections of road for us so we could ...

Suzuki Tl1000S Specifications
Dimensions
Resting on a 57.5-inch wheelbase is a chassis 81.3 inches long, 29.8 inches wide and 46.3 inches high. The seat is positioned 32.9 inches from ground level and the bottom of the frame clears the ground by 5.5 inches. The dry weight of the Suzuki — the weight of the vehicle once it has been drained of all of its fluids, such as oil and gas — is 427 pounds.
Engine
A V-type engine drives the Suzuki. This engine has two cylinders pointing away from each other, making a V-shape. Both cylinders have a diameter of 3.6 inches, which is known as the bore. Pistons travel 2.6 inches within the cylinders, known as stroke. Each cylinder is equipped ...

SUZUKI GS1000
Here’s what Jarmo Haapamaki at Suzukicycles.org has to say about the Suzuki GS1000:
Surprising everyone, Suzuki Motor Company presented a late prototype of GS1000, their first 1000 cc motorcycle in the Paris motorcycle show, the 64th Salon an der Porte de Versailles, in 1977.
Back in 1977, the manufacturers competed against each other by making larger and more powerful motorcycle engines (sound familiar?) and 1000 was a very respectable number on the side panel. Kawasaki had already released its KZ1000 and Yamaha the powerful XS11. Honda had its GL1000 Gold Wing.
Suzuki was the last one of the Japanese ”big four” to join the exclusive ”1000 cc club” with the GS1000. ...

Day 1—Pick-up bike on Monday, May 1, 2006:
12:30PM – Received call from “Vista Jim” at Vista Kawasaki in Dayton, Ohio that my request for the first available ZX-14 to his dealership had FINALLY been fulfilled. Appointment was made to pick up the bike at 3:00PM.
3:00PM – Arrived to pick up bright red 2006 ZX-14. Naturally, my new leathers are black and blue, but as Murphy would have it, this bike was a ‘no match’ to any leathers I have ever owned. Damn, 66% chance of NOT getting red, and the red bike was the first to show.
Oh well…I have parts to make, and the red does look good in a Ferrari kind of way.
3:45PM – Leave Vista Kawasaki with the bike (1 mile on ...

Modifikasi motor
Motor racing-MV Agusta F4 RR
the current manufacturer of motor racing-race to be the best in the works they create. Each favor such excess motor. As we get first look at 2012 MV Agusta F4 RR Corsacorta.
That makes 198hp, MV features short-stroke motor Corsacorta. We can expect to see 2012 MV Agusta F4 RR Corsacorta can compete even more than other dealers at the time this summer, with prices in the neighborhood of $ 30,000 +.
Kawasaki ZX-14R at the strip
I grew up as a fan of roadracing, so dragracing used to seem boring to me. Not anymore! This was now my third time aboard a ZX-14 at the strip, and it’s always proven to be super exciting and intensely complex, as a rider ...

Hyundai i10 1.0-litre prototype first drive review
What is it?
A prototype version of the all-new Hyundai i10. a compact hatchback that’s designed to rival cars such as the Fiat Panda .
We tested an early version of the next-gen Hyundai i10 in Sweden earlier this year, but now engineers report the car is almost production ready and Autocar was invited to Turkey to drive a late prototype.
The new i10 needs to build on the success of the previous model; in 2008 we named the first i10 our car of the year. But while we loved its packaging and style, it was clear the Hyundai needed to grow up and find its own place in the market.
So this version – based on a new platform shared with ...

Team Suzuki Press Office – February 12, 2008.
Suzuki Motor Corporation is pleased to announce its motorcycle racing activities for 2008. Through its racing participation across the globe, Suzuki will publicise the superiority of its motorcycle products to the world market and reaffirm its racing heritage to the public.
ROAD RACING
1) MotoGP World Championship:
Class: MotoGP. Machine: GSV-R. Team: RIZLA SUZUKI MotoGP.
Riders: Loris Capirossi, Chris Vermeulen.
In 2007, the factory RIZLA SUZUKI MotoGP team participated in this class with two riders, John Hopkins and Chris Vermeulen, aboard the 2007 GSV-R, a machine whose engine capacity had been reduced from 990cc to 800cc in accordance ...

Rubric: Suzuki | 25 May 2015 | Comments Off on NEW 2009 VMAX Comments and Opinions

First Ride: 2008 Yamaha V Max
29/08/08
Jon Urry sends us back his impressions of Yamaha’s eagerly-awaited 200bhp musclebike
IT’S BEEN twelve years in the making but Yamaha has finally launched their new VMAX. Has it been worth the wait?
Having sold over 100,000 machines over the old model’s 16-year reign, Yamaha took their time with the new model to ensure they got it spot on. And finally, now it’s here, the beast feels absolutely perfect.
Yamaha claim the new VMAX motor makes 200bhp with 123lb.ft of torque. Impressive stuff. So what’s it like? It will hold top gear (fifth) right down to 1,500rpm but will pull cleanly and smoothly right up to the (restricted) top ...

[edit ] Steam power
In the 1860s Pierre Michaux. a blacksmith in Paris. founded ‘Michaux et Cie’ (Michaux and company), the first company to construct bicycles with pedals called a velocipede at the time, or Michauline. [2] The first steam powered motorcycle can be traced to 1867, when Pierre’s son Ernest Michaux fitted a small steam engine to one of the ‘velocipedes’. [3]
The design went to the USA when Pierre Lallement. a Michaux employee who also claimed to have developed the prototype in 1863, filed for the first bicycle patent with the U.S. patent office in 1866. [4] In 1868 an American, Sylvester Howard Roper of Roxbury. Massachusetts developed a twin cylinder ...

Suzuki Weaves In and Out
Japan’s fourth largest automobile maker didn’t get its start with cars. Suzuki started in 1909 as Suzuki Loom Works, founded by Michio Suzuki who invented a new type of weaving machine. The looms were successful but Suzuki looked at expanding and based on customer demand started with the car in 1937.
Several years later, several compact prototype cars were done.
World War II put a halt to car manufacturing and afterwards Suzuki went back to making looms. The cotton market collapsed in 1951 so Suzuki once again thought about cars. However, Japan needed affordable and reliable transportation.
A clip-on gas powered engine attached to bicycles emerged as ...